It was rare for a '90s sitcom not to have a laugh track. Which made it all the more surprising when Sports Night dropped the ...

For decades, sitcoms ruled mainstream television. Situational comedies appealed to the masses, and using laugh tracks to signal when a punchline was delivered was the norm. In the last 25 years, ...

There's a lot of things that can ruin an otherwise decent sitcom. A cheesy script or underwritten characters is one. Cringey, outdated jokes or overused, tired tropes is another. But when it comes to ...

In the 75 years since it was introduced, the laugh track has conditioned viewers to know when and how much to laugh Some audiences love it, and some audiences hate it, but the laugh track—which ...

Aaron Sorkin's first television series was also his first and only sitcom, and the comedy felt like nothing else the genre had seen before.

I ran into an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots were shown, one with and one without a laugh ...

In the pantheon of great TV shows about sports, "Sports Night" consistently pops up on most people's lists. The Aaron Sorkin creation was clever, sharp, bitingly sarcastic and, unfortunately, canceled ...